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Fila (Italian: Fee-lah; Korean: 휠라; RR: hwilla) is a South Korean-owned athleisure brand headquartered in Seoul. The company was originally founded by Ettore and Giansevero Fila in 1911 in Coggiola, near Biella, Italy. [2] Fila Korea acquired the brand in 2007 and launched its initial public offering (IPO) on the Korea Exchange in September ...
The zoning changes were intended to rectify incorrect zoning maps to facilitate future community development, as the city forecasts an additional 100,000 residents and 40,000 jobs will be added by 2035. The Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) is the largest landlord in Pennsylvania.
A 1752 map of Philadelphia. The city of Philadelphia was founded and incorporated in 1682 by William Penn in the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Before then, the area was inhabited by the Lenape people.
Corentin Fila (born 1988), French actor; Daniel Fila (born 2002), Czech footballer; Fila Fuamatu, Samoan powerlifter; Gary Fila (born 1981), Australian rules football field umpire; Ivan Fíla, Czech film director; Karol Fila (born 1998), Polish footballer; Marek Fila (1959–2023), Slovak mathematician; Rudolf Fila (1932–2015), Slovak painter ...
The Religious Society of Free Quakers founded; 1783 June 20: Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783; June 22: Congress flees to Princeton, New Jersey, due to the Pennsylvania Munity; 1784 Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum founded [11] Dock Street laid out. [8] 1785 – Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture instituted [8] 1786 Labor ...
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Province of Pennsylvania. William Penn – founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (a British colony), also founded Philadelphia; Benjamin Franklin. Pennsylvania Gazette (1729) – located in Philadelphia, Ben Franklin purchased an existing newspaper, and shortened its name to this. Library Company of Philadelphia (1731) Poor Richard's Almanack ...
The Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855, and in 1863 the school became Pennsylvania's land-grant university under the terms of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Temple University in Philadelphia was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell , originally as a night school for working-class citizens.